Vessels disabled and adrift at 311232Z mar: a. F/V 90046 qng, 11 persons on board, vicinity 18-26N 113-11E
South China Sea · HYDROPAC 922/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-04-01 05:55Z
This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.
- Source and dates
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · MRCC VIETNAM 311844Z MAR 12.. Issued 2012-03-31 19:19Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- South China Sea. The parsed report position is 18.108, 112.775. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- F/V 90046 qng and F/V 90252 qng, 23 persons on board, disabled and adrift in 19-33N 114-57E at 290800Z marcancelled by this notice
- Vessels disabled and adrift at 010358Z apr: a. F/V 90046 qng, 11 persons on board, in 18-19N 112-59Elater cancellation notice
These reports were linked by category and sea, with positions within 30 nautical miles and issue dates within 30 days of another report's recorded in-force span. Links can extend through other members, so the full group can cover a larger area or period. Proximity does not confirm that they describe one incident.
- HYDROPAC 907/122012-03-29 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 922/12 · this notice2012-03-31 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 925/122012-04-01 · Archived notice
- HYDROPAC 935/122012-04-02 · Archived notice
Current notices and reporting history in the South China Sea →
- issued
- 2012-03-31 19:19Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- MRCC VIETNAM 311844Z MAR 12.
- issued by
- MRCC VIETNAM
- sea
- South China Sea
- position
- 18.108, 112.775
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
SOUTH CHINA SEA.
1. VESSELS DISABLED AND ADRIFT AT 311232Z MAR:
A. F/V 90046 QNG, 11 PERSONS ON BOARD,
VICINITY 18-26N 113-11E.
B. F/V 90252 QNG, 12 PERSONS ON BOARD,
VICINITY 17-47N 112-22E.
VESSELS IN VICINITY REQUESTED TO KEEP A
SHARP LOOKOUT, ASSIST IF POSSIBLE.
REPORTS TO MRCC VIETNAM.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 907/12.
Reading this warning
- Adrift
- Loose and moving with wind and current — a vessel, container, buoy, log or anything else no longer secured.
- Date-time group (DTG)
- A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
- Persons on board (POB)
- The number of people reported aboard a vessel in distress, overdue or missing.
- Position (degrees and minutes)
- How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
- Keep a sharp lookout
- A request to every ship in the area to watch for the vessel, people or object described.
- Assist if possible
- The second half of the standard rescue request: ships able to help are asked to do so.
- MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre)
- A rescue coordination centre for maritime cases only, such as MRCC Fort-de-France or MRCC Vietnam.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROPAC
- The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
Collected reports in this area · distress & casualty cases (archived)
246 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now
Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.
- F/V qna 90187 ts, four persons on board, flooding in vicinity 16-24.00N 110-29.00E2024-04-01
- 20 meter vessel, capsized and adrift in vicinity 15-35.36N 112-51.79E at 301000Z nov2023-12-01
- F/V qng 90458 ts, 11 persons on board, sinking in vicinity 16-05.00N 111-15.00E at 301400Z nov2023-11-30
- 15 meter catamaran capsized and adrift in vicinity of 15-35.36N 112-51.79E at 301000Z nov2023-11-30
- Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 15-15.00N 112-45.00E2023-11-11
- F/V bd 98372 ts reports one person requiring medical assistance in 17-10.00N 115-00.00E at 121400Z may2023-05-13
Month of issue in the collected archive
All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.
Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
0 distress & casualty cases (archived) listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 23:54Z; source collection times vary.
Incidents
Search-and-rescue broadcasts, published only once a case has been closed for 30 days: groundings, sinkings, capsizes, fires, man overboard, overdue vessels. Nothing here is live. All current distress & casualty cases (archived) →
Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.